Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-13
COMM UNICATIOS.
is Land Of Ltberty.o

ssThis Land Of Lfberty.'' To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 It seems that MT. Most has paid this city visit, and addressed an audience on the sub iect of his mission to the United States and the incidents which have followed. True, he has had rough time of it, and why shouldn't he? for he seems not to comprehend that ssliberty'' does not consist of the absence of law.
 Such teachings as he gives utterance to are not in harmony with law and order, nor do they in any manner recognize such liberty" as is the handmaid of freedom" as we rec country.
 We elect whom we please to rule and gov ern US, and our elections come so frequently that we vote in new men to rule and govern us if we find we have made a mistake and desire a change. Herein consists one great boon of "freedom," i" and it is time that cranks and disturbers of peace and order understood that the free men of free country can man. age their own affairs without calling to their aid imported or exported cranks to teach our people what freedom" is.
 Among the rights which the constitution and laws of the United States accord to men is the (proper) use of their property, when in money to use it to erect factory and give employment to such men as are capable of doing such work proGtably as the factory was built to do. The owner or owners take a great risk when they take tens of thousands of hard cash and exchange it for brick, lum- Der and machinery, for when thus exchanged 8 second great risk is encountered, to wit, will the raw materials and the labor which is added to it to put it in new form sell? Re- membering 'sright here" that this is won derful country for ingenuity and competition. Again, can builder, plumber and heater of buildings sit down and estimate for what round sum he will bind himself to follow building plans and specifications, and when he will con- plete the work, if at his elbow stand every class of workingmen saying, don't depend on us unless your mind is made up to en- ploy no man who does not belong to our or der and to rule out every man or class of men we see fit to boycott, and to pay us just what our order demands, or none of our order shall work for you; or if you employ men who do not belong to our order we will so boycott you as to prevent your proceeding with your business at all, even if we have to invade your place of work and upset your benches and tools. or stop your carts when carting products of the factory or materials to build another or 8 housei
 ssI.iberty and freedom consists Gin trade) of buying iand of them who have it to sell of erecting factories and filling them with machinery and building houses and stores and employing such men to work in or on them as shall be deemed best by the princi- pals who are paying ont their money and taking the great risks of construction and then of trade, manufacture and commerce.
 If it has come to pass that business men in this country have lost their ''iberty and freedom" to do these things then it is time to have another f'tea party" but this is not all. Such doings as are now going on are as fatal to steady and capable operatives and laborers and their families as to the doing of business at all. Because, already, more than one hum dred millions of dollars of time have been lost to operatives and laborers and wives and child1en are the real sufferers and losers to say nothing of landlords and grocers. This loss would have built tens of thousands of oper- atives' houses.
 Is this state of things the result of 'spre education" of intelligent newspapers and the boasted intelligence of the working classes? Has it come to this that man cannot en- ploy another man unless the employer has procured certificate from some labor or ganization that the man he desires or is will ing to employ belongs to that certain labor organization, or that the man who has fam fly and must work or they starve carries with him certificate that he belongs to a certain labor organization of the Knights of Labor?
 If this is not anarchy then it is al-'s Most' Anarchy, on which is founded "the absence of laws" which are parts and parcels of every mans rights.
 Thanks to law and order courts still hold sacred the individual rights of man, ,and pun ish conspirators. COMMON SENSE.